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Leipheimer: Why I Doped

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Levi Leipheimer

Updated Oct. 10, 2012 7:04 p.m. ET

American cyclist Levi Leipheimer, 38, raced on the U.S. Postal Service, Astana and RadioShack cycling teams with Lance Armstrong between 2000 and 2011. He finished third in the Tour de France in 2007 and won a bronze medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. On Wednesday, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released the evidence it had collected in bringing charges against Armstrong and five others, who it said conspired to run a systematic doping program. The evidence named Leipheimer as one of the cyclists who testified in the probe. Leipheimer, who has never commented on the issue, discusses it here for the first time.

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